Stabilise whole clip based on movement of selected area

kevinbuckley70

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Jul 11, 2020 07:20

I have a timelapse video which has some shaking because of the wind. It also has moving clouds. If I use the stabiliser it makes it worse because it tries to stabilise the clouds! Is it possible to stabilise the whole clip based on the movement of a selected (ground) area? I have a standalone tool which does this just fine but I just upgraded powerdirector and wondered if this was possible inside the tool.

optodata

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Jul 11, 2020 15:17

There's no way to select any particular area to stabilize, although that might be a good thing to request using Rate Us & Provide Suggestions under PD's File menu.

You may have some luck by experimenting with different combinations of the motion level slider and enabling/disabling rotational shake and enhanced stabilizer, but if you have a tool that already does what you want, it seems like using that and importing the result into PD would be the quickest way to go.

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kevinbuckley70

Newbie Joined: Oct 15, 2015 03:39 Messages: 8 Offline

Jul 12, 2020 05:12

Quote There's no way to select any particular area to stabilize, although that might be a good thing to request using Rate Us & Provide Suggestions under PD's File menu.

You may have some luck by experimenting with different combinations of the motion level slider and enabling/disabling rotational shake and enhanced stabilizer, but if you have a tool that already does what you want, it seems like using that and importing the result into PD would be the quickest way to go.

Yes. I did it that way and it works fine. The filter is 'deshaker' and it's free. You have to use it with virtualdub which is also free. - https://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm